https://blog.tux-sudo.com/tags/nginx/Recent content in Nginx on Tux-SudoHugoen-usMon, 19 Feb 2018 11:01:54 +0530https://blog.tux-sudo.com/posts/caddy-autohttps/Mon, 19 Feb 2018 11:01:54 +0530https://blog.tux-sudo.com/posts/caddy-autohttps/<p>This one is a gamechanger. It really is.</p> <p>On a recent Golang obsessed Github browsing spree, I read the following project description: &ldquo;Fast, cross-platform HTTP/2 web server with automatic HTTPS&rdquo;. I&rsquo;ve read that before, and more often than not ended up disappointing myself and resorting to hacks like [this] (<a href="https://blog.tux-sudo.com/posts/letsencrypt-nginx-docker/">https://blog.tux-sudo.com/posts/letsencrypt-nginx-docker/</a>) to create an automatic TLS system for my websites. There are other ways, but almost all of them were semi-automatic in the long run (yay cron!). I decided to try out [Caddy] (<a href="https://caddyserver.com/)">https://caddyserver.com/)</a>.</p>https://blog.tux-sudo.com/posts/letsencrypt-nginx-docker/Tue, 26 Sep 2017 16:25:49 +0530https://blog.tux-sudo.com/posts/letsencrypt-nginx-docker/<p>I like nginx. I like docker. I like SSL. I also like not paying for SSL certificates.<br> If you, like me are operating a small time website, you probably don&rsquo;t want to dish out a few hundred dollars for an SSL certificate.Thankfully, <a href="https://letsencrypt.org">LetsEncrypt</a> provides <strong>free</strong> ssl certificates and is now trusted by most major browsers.<br> However, integrating <a href="https://certbot.eff.org/">certbot</a> to automatically configure my nginx inside a docker container has been a pain. In the past, I generated the standalone cert with &ndash;cert-only and then linked my docker container to use it but this was a far from usable solution given the horrid automation code I had to write. <br> Recently, I tried to come up with a more automation friendly solution and ended up with the following:<br></p>